This elaboration has been composed for a book project of Indian Railway Authors on METRO RAIL IN INDIA as Part I of a Picture Gallery with images of the operational colour coded Lines of Indian Metro Rail.
Worldwide India is raking second behind China in regard of the pace in installing and expanding in its cities Metro Rail. The operational total length as April 2020 has reached 692.65 km. Further 968 km are at present under construction or extension in varies cities.
METRO RAIL IN INDIA, meeting the demand for Urban Mobility, is a success story for its fast paced legislation, planning, financing, construction and operation; and in the last 18 years has significantly improved URBAN MOBILITY and changed the public transport in several Indian cities.
The Kolkata Metro was for 18 years the only Underground Metro Rail in India, opening for commercial services from 1984. It celebrates now its 35th anniversary. Only after 18 years, Delhi was the second city to get Metro Rail. The first underground section (Vishwa Vidyalaya – Kashmere Gate) of the Yellow Line opened on 20th December 2004. Within only 18 years the network expanded to 692 km serving over 250 stations.
Delhi Metro is a Pioneer in METRO RAIL EXPANSION and a Symbol of the Progress, that India has made in the last two decades. The leading eminent personality behind this success story is Mr. E. Sreedharan:
See: Rajendra B. Aklekar: “INDIA`S RAILWAY MAN – A BIOGRAPHY OF E. SREEDHARAN”, 2017, Rups Publication India Pvt., New Delhi, ISBN: 978-81-291-XXXX-X.
The rapid success with Metro Rail is also owed to the fact, that India has imported under the leadership of E. Sreedharan the technology from abroad.
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